Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8‚ 1902 – February 4‚ 1987) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956. Carl Rogers was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th-century. He was a humanist
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Abraham Maslow was a man who has a tremendous influence on early childhood education. Maslow’s theory was about achieving self-actualization with the satisfaction of human needs. According to Maslow’s theory basic needs have to be satisfied before any other higher level needs can be satisfied. “Abraham Maslow proposed what has become an almost definitive model of self-actualization with his theory of hierarchy of needs.” (Hanley‚ Abell‚ 2002). The hierarchy consists of five different levels
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SELF ACTUALIZATION "Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism‚ or more accurately‚ of what the organism is." Abraham Maslow Maslow studied healthy people‚ most psychologists study sick people. The characteristics listed here are the results of 20 years of study of people who had the "full use and exploitation of talents‚ capacities‚ potentialities‚ etc.." Self-actualization implies the attainment of the basic needs of physiological‚ safety/security‚ love/belongingness
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Running Head: SELF-ACTUALIZATION Self-Actualization Destini Bridgeman Kaplan College Instructor Brewer Self-actualization is a part of our nature that helps us to become better people‚ by expanding our creativity‚ and making our experiences much more intense. It is usual for us to hear someone say that‚ "I quit. I cannot do this anymore." Some people do so because they are tired of what they are doing‚ and others may just give up on their dreams because of their own personality problem
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PSY 320: Human Motivation Final Exam Name: Instructions: This exam contains 50 questions. Each question is worth ½ point. Please select the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. There is only one best answer although some answers may appear similar. Please make your choice by changing the font color of your answer for each question. Your choice must be clear. If no answer is marked‚ or if your choice is unclear‚ the qu estion will be marked as incorrect. SAMPLE:
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Personality Similarities and Differences between Rogers’ and Maslow’s interpretation of "Self- actualization Rogers and Maslow are from a Humanistic approach to thought. The human approach takes away from the man and robot statement that the behaviorists maintain. Rogers and Maslow engaged in a concept of self-actualization and characteristics and the requirements to achieve it. Rogers and Maslow theories of self -actualization have similarities and differences. These two discussed
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build a product called “happiness” with material means. After having gathered all the pots of gold and some over several years‚ one must sit back with his broken leg and greyed hair and ponder: perhaps smiling would have been simpler. Similarly‚ self-actualization‚ though placed at the pinnacle of the need hierarchy‚ is actually the most basic goal one can achieve. I like to think that our social upbringing has distorted our thinking‚ in that we consider going to the end of the earth to find happiness
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Over many years Psychologists such as Freud‚ Skinner‚ Rogers and Watson‚ just to name a few‚ have contributed‚ providing us with invaluable tools to evaluate and treat mental illness‚ understand and treat phobias and indeed provide us with a window into the unconscious mind. In particular‚ two areas of study have intrigued me‚ so I believe it would be useful to compare and contrast these two very different approaches. Not only will I compare the methods of research used but also will note any similarities
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Meeting Needs for Self-Actualization Everyone has certain needs that must be met in order to live a happy and fulfilling life. These needs are divided into three specific types which are physical‚ psychological‚ and social needs. Abraham Maslow‚ an expert in human behavior‚ along with Carl Rogers used these three general types to develop a larger hierarchy of human needs for self-actualization. Even though there is discontentment or unending needs of a person‚ one ’s needs must be satisfied in order
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The Theories of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers Maslow and Rogers come from a school of thought‚ which is referred to as Humanistic. Such an approach steers away from the idea that man is a robot‚ who is the total product of outside forces‚ as the Behaviorist would maintain; or that man simply results from the interaction of primal drives and the demands of community - a belief held by many Freudians. The Humanistic approach accepts the ’human qualities’ of the individual; that man is born with
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